Sometimes I get the ideas from my own skull, as it were and sometimes I might see something that I like and modify it for the carving I want to do. I found this drawing that looked like it might have been worked up for a Black and Grey tattoo. Then I modified it and created a tracing pattern and went to carving!!
Patterns can be very much like sheet music every musician and or conductor has their own take on the music and in that way we find the diversity of our world.